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First off, thanks for the good vibes, everyone! Against all odds, we managed to dodge a bullet with the Frankenstorm. We got seriously lucky, and while we're not out of the woods yet, it looks like everything is more or less okay.
Unfortunately, like many, we missed Halloween entirely. So much for my hopes of finally sucking up the guts to review Batman: The Long Halloween this year! Heck, we were in such a rush yesterday that I couldn't even post two wonderfully Halloween-themes Bat-villain things that were pointed my way by a couple different awesome readers! First off, holy crap, these pumpkins:
( And here's what the same artist's Joker pumpkin looks like! )
The Joker's pretty amazing, but that Two-Face... wow! As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
captaintwinings remarked, "That looks better than most actual comic art!" I have to agree, that scarring is rendered gorgeously in its grotesquery.
The other big bit of news comes courtesy of comic artist Dustin Nguyen (Detective Comics, Batman: Streets of Gotham), who has spent the last five years pitching DC an idea for a whole Tiny Titans style series called Li'l Gothams. Finally, all his efforts have paid off with a standalone Halloween story released exclusively in digital form for just 99ยข!
( Here's a large image of the cover! )
If super-cute chibi-like things are not your speed, you may want to avoid this. Otherwise, I can promise you that this story is an absolutely delightful little treat (hurr) involving Batman teaching Damian the true meaning of Halloween and the rogues celebrating a night out to dinner where they can be left alone. This is to be the first of a year-long series of one-shots which Nguyen and writer Derek Fridolfs are calling, The Calendar of Small Events, with each story taking place around a different holiday.
This project promised to be a super-exciting project not just for fans of the classic Bat-Family and Rogues, but also for a few fan-favorites who haven't been seen for a while, such as Cass Cain and Stephanie Brown! Although then again, that could be subject to change at any moment. Depending on just how deep DC's obsessive erasure of Steph, Cass, Renee Montoya, and other fangirl-favorites goes, we might just see a decidedly altered version of that above promo piece when all's said and done. I don't even like Steph, but something seriously stinks at DC, man.
Unfortunately, like many, we missed Halloween entirely. So much for my hopes of finally sucking up the guts to review Batman: The Long Halloween this year! Heck, we were in such a rush yesterday that I couldn't even post two wonderfully Halloween-themes Bat-villain things that were pointed my way by a couple different awesome readers! First off, holy crap, these pumpkins:
( And here's what the same artist's Joker pumpkin looks like! )
The Joker's pretty amazing, but that Two-Face... wow! As
captaintwinings remarked, "That looks better than most actual comic art!" I have to agree, that scarring is rendered gorgeously in its grotesquery. The other big bit of news comes courtesy of comic artist Dustin Nguyen (Detective Comics, Batman: Streets of Gotham), who has spent the last five years pitching DC an idea for a whole Tiny Titans style series called Li'l Gothams. Finally, all his efforts have paid off with a standalone Halloween story released exclusively in digital form for just 99ยข!
( Here's a large image of the cover! )
If super-cute chibi-like things are not your speed, you may want to avoid this. Otherwise, I can promise you that this story is an absolutely delightful little treat (hurr) involving Batman teaching Damian the true meaning of Halloween and the rogues celebrating a night out to dinner where they can be left alone. This is to be the first of a year-long series of one-shots which Nguyen and writer Derek Fridolfs are calling, The Calendar of Small Events, with each story taking place around a different holiday.
This project promised to be a super-exciting project not just for fans of the classic Bat-Family and Rogues, but also for a few fan-favorites who haven't been seen for a while, such as Cass Cain and Stephanie Brown! Although then again, that could be subject to change at any moment. Depending on just how deep DC's obsessive erasure of Steph, Cass, Renee Montoya, and other fangirl-favorites goes, we might just see a decidedly altered version of that above promo piece when all's said and done. I don't even like Steph, but something seriously stinks at DC, man.
